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France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
431•nar001•4h ago•206 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
136•bookofjoe•1h ago•115 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
438•theblazehen•2d ago•158 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
27•thelok•1h ago•2 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
87•AlexeyBrin•5h ago•17 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
779•klaussilveira•19h ago•241 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
35•vinhnx•3h ago•4 comments

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
22•mellosouls•2h ago•17 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
39•samasblack•2h ago•24 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
56•onurkanbkrc•4h ago•3 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1027•xnx•1d ago•583 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
173•alainrk•4h ago•231 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
168•jesperordrup•10h ago•62 comments

A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-fresh-look-at-ibm-3270-information-display-system
24•rbanffy•4d ago•5 comments

StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
19•simonw•2h ago•16 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
103•videotopia•4d ago•27 comments

Vinklu Turns Forgotten Plot in Bucharest into Tiny Coffee Shop

https://design-milk.com/vinklu-turns-forgotten-plot-in-bucharest-into-tiny-coffee-shop/
5•surprisetalk•5d ago•0 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
14•marklit•5d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
265•isitcontent•20h ago•33 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
152•matheusalmeida•2d ago•42 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
277•dmpetrov•20h ago•147 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
35•matt_d•4d ago•10 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
546•todsacerdoti•1d ago•263 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
419•ostacke•1d ago•110 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
65•helloplanets•4d ago•69 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
364•vecti•22h ago•165 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
338•eljojo•22h ago•207 comments

Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
16•sandGorgon•2d ago•4 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
457•lstoll•1d ago•301 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
372•aktau•1d ago•195 comments
Open in hackernews

Mind captioning: Evolving descriptive text of mental content of brain activity

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw1464
25•Marshferm•3mo ago

Comments

fouc•3mo ago
In the future, we'll probably lose the ability to verbalize or construct sentences because our thoughts will be directly understood by LLMs, it'll be too easy and convenient.
Marshferm•3mo ago
It can’t be LLMs they’re incompatible with thought.
fouc•3mo ago
you didn't look at the paper? or you're taking umbrage with the "understanding" part?
Marshferm•3mo ago
It’s not understanding, it’s explanation. I read the paper, I posted it.

Start at what are human explanations:

https://www.alisongopnik.com/Papers_Alison/Explain%20final.p...

Now what are words in relation to that drive?

“We refute (based on empirical evidence) claims that humans use linguistic representations to think.” Ev Fedorenko Language Lab MIT 2024

What are LLMs?

As language or tokens cannot represent anything of merit in brains accurately, then the interpretation of what is semantic vs what is a task variable action potential is subject to the Gopnik problem.

It’s an enforced circularity that never allows the brain/ecology to speak for itself in its native process.

fouc•2mo ago
thoughts would be more analogous to the weights in the the LLM, rather than language or tokens as you mention
pessimizer•3mo ago
They'll give up talking to us too, and just interface through our ears. The LLM earpiece will just make some 2800 baud modem noises and we'll move around like marionettes.
Terr_•3mo ago
Not quite a wordless scenario, but after seeing some people today already scrolling for dopamine, I'm still worried:

> I can remember putting on the headset for the first time and the computer talking to me and telling me what to do. It was creepy at first, but that feeling really only lasted a day or so. Then you were used to it, and the job really did get easier. Manna never pushed you around, never yelled at you. The girls liked it because Manna didn’t hit on them either. Manna simply asked you to do something, you did it, you said, “OK”, and Manna asked you to do the next step. Each step was easy. You could go through the whole day on autopilot, and Manna made sure that you were constantly doing something. At the end of the shift Manna always said the same thing. “You are done for today. Thank you for your help.” Then you took off your headset and put it back on the rack to recharge. The first few minutes off the headset were always disorienting — there had been this voice in your head telling you exactly what to do in minute detail for six or eight hours. You had to turn your brain back on to get out of the restaurant.

-- https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

Marshferm•3mo ago
It’s entirely reliant on symbols, ie it’s irrelevant in terms of brain-ecology processes.
Terr_•3mo ago
The shareholders yearn for the Torment Nexus.
HollowVoice•3mo ago
And to think, I grew up thinking Greg Egan and Iain Banks were (mostly) trying to write hopeful stories. It was dystopian all along!

Oh well, time to kill all the weirdos.

UltraSane•3mo ago
I can see many people not learning how to write when speech to text gets good enough.
briga•3mo ago
Is this the future technology that anyone wants?
juris•3mo ago
if only to screen suitable material for the presidency.
Terr_•3mo ago
System output: "Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV."
hereme888•3mo ago
And then wait for the discounted $5k deal* for an automated robotic surgery to implant a NeuraLink device.

*You agree to allow the company to collect anonymized data, to help improve* the device.

*Our lawyers are still working on this.

Terr_•3mo ago
If I had my legal 'druthers, such, er, "brain-derived mental content" would be flatly illegal to obtain without a specific and discrete sharing decision by the person, and such decisions may not be part of any contract, so:

1. You can buy a tool and use it to monitor yourself, whether daily-logger, dream-recorder, a fetish-detector, whatever.

2. You can share specific results with others on a case-by-case basis, but it's illegal for them to obtain it any other way.

3. It is not illegal (or at least unenforceable) for someone to require you to share results in exchange for something else, like requiring employees to wear a disloyalty-detector headband.

The question of how it applies to the 5th amendment right against self-incrimination... Hmm. Someone placing Guilt-O-Meter on your head would be illegal, but if you did it yourself and left log files around...

survirtual•3mo ago
You're close but the idea gets much broader and extends to augmented intelligence as well.

Once the brain is readable, it actually becomes easier to justify legal protections for augmented compute intelligence, ironically enough.

The inevitable end result for a benevolent manifested planet / universe is we all have equal share of impenetrable compute.

This result is unavoidable if we want to live a free and prosperous life.

It requires encoding certain human rights, freedoms, privacy protections, and corporate / government limitations that human beings are not remotely ready to encode yet.

So by extension, I won't hold my breath on brain scanning being a technology I would be comfortable with in the hands of this current world and thinking.

8474_s•3mo ago
What is the real-world fidelity of this "decoding both perceptual and mental content"? Can it record dream as video?